Member Job Opportunity: Action for Children - Transition Worker

• ​Location: Bristol, Southwest England
• Salary: Up to £24,000 pro rata
• Contract Type: Fixed Term Part-Time
• Closing Date: 10 May 2024
  

Interview Dates: Week commencing 13 May 2024.

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​Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract – 12 months – 18.5 hours per week.

Benefits:  

• A generous annual leave entitlement of 29 days PLUS bank holidays pro rata.
• Up to 7 more days leave for continuous service plus the option to buy and sell leave.
• Gain professional qualifications with excellent training, and development opportunities.
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
• A pension with a up to a 7% employer contribution rate. Plus, if you pay in to the pension you will receive life assurance cover.
• Staff discount portal with your favourite brands.
• Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.

Why Action for Children?  
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.  

A bit about the role  
As a Transitions Worker you'll be providing one to one (and possibly group based) practical and emotional support to our young people to make the transition from foster care/continuing care into independent living. You'll coordinate and direct the support to young people by agreeing and providing interventions, enabling positive and agreed outcomes to be achieved, in accordance with organisational policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.

About the service 
Our three linked services, Fostering Southwest, Fostering Southwest Peninsula and Family Breaks Devon provide high quality foster families to vulnerable children and young people from our offices in Bristol and Exeter.

How you'll help to create brighter futures
As a Transition Worker you will  offer support and advice to our young people to overcome barriers that can include housing, homelessness, confidence and self-esteem issues, poor social skills, lack of qualifications and employment opportunities. You will also support young people with emotional wellbeing and provide resilient and nurturing support, even in challenging and demanding situations.

Further details and application documents here